Faculty
Steve M. Liao, MD, MSCI
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine
Steve Liao, MD, MSCI grew up in Taiwan before moving to southern California for high school (Los Altos High) and college (UCLA). He came to St. Louis for medical school and continued his pediatric training at St. Louis University School of Medicine. Liao completed his fellowship training in newborn medicine and received a MS degree in clinical investigation at Washington University in St. Louis.
Christopher McPherson, Pharm D
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
McPherson is a clinical pharmacist in the NICU at St. Louis Children's Hospital. His research interests include pharmacologic treatment of the PDA and the neurologic implications of sedation in preterm infants.
Rakesh Rao, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine
Rao's research interests include hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, therapeutic hypothermia, and neuroimaging.
John Zempel, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Pediatric Neurology
Zempel is a Child Neurologist and director of the EEG laboratory at St. Louis Children's Hospital. He has an interest in neonatal neurology, epilepsy in children, autism, pediatric sleep disorders, and Landau-Kleffner syndrome.